Wednesday, May 19, 2010

By defending the Second Amendment and promoting the right to self defense, the NRA is sometimes called the largest human rights organization in the world. They put on a terrific annual meeting every year and while discovering new products and handling guns is always fun, (well, almost always - Cobra Firearms is another subject entirely) what happened this past weekend in a convention center in beautiful Charlotte, NC was really about people. I met people from all over the country, each a testament to the diversity of not only the NRA, but also the gun culture in general.

Gunbloggers, of course, are no different and I had the pleasure of meeting a lot of them. A few were people I'd already met, many were long time online friends, and quite a few were new to the blogosphere.

Here's a few sites that will be added to my blogroll. They are all written by exceptional people and their voices are a welcome addition to the already thriving gunblog community!

"American gun manufacturers, like Utah's Cobra company, have tried to 'target' the female market with colorful small guns that shoot as few as two bullets. 'We have pink, purple, fuschia,' said Kimberley Wallace at the Cobra booth. 'They're Derringers, just like the ones from the 1800s that ladies tucked in their garter belts.'

"But their most popular model with female customers is The Shadow, a pink .38 Special that weighs only 15 ounces. 'It weighs about as much as a cell phone, and it fits in your purse,' Wallace explained. 'It has five shots, and if you're scared, you just pull this out and shoot, shoot, shoot.'